1
[ adverb ] of a dreadful kind

Synonyms

horribly awfully

Examples

"there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

It is like a mysterious epidemic which , starting first with Abigail and Parris , spreads inexorably with a dreadfully growing virulence through the whole town until all have been infected by it .

Related terms

awful atrocious dreadful awful atrocious

2
[ adverb ] in a dreadful manner

Synonyms

dismally

Examples

"as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed"

Related terms

atrocious atrocious

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Rhymes with

regretfully readily steadily carefully federally unsuccessfully federally successfully anencephaly gratefully gracefully helpfully respectfully wonderfully tastefully playfully gainfully painfully faithfully artfully frightfully heavily masterfully eventually sequentially wearily preferentially tangentially warily mentally potentially exponentially confidentially essentially kennelly merrily rightfully fitfully ruefully forcefully mercifully severally testily mentally tearfully awfully willfully wistfully wilfully militarily professionally arbitrarily fundamentally medically extraordinarily generally perennially necessarily experimentally environmentally customarily developmentally ordinarily incidentally fatally voluntarily accidentally momentarily coincidentally temporarily secondarily temperamentally primarily skillfully blissfully truthfully cheerfully wrongfully manfully lawfully woefully tactfully delightfully hopefully thoughtfully specially especially pitifully joyfully dutifully crazily wishfully greedily radially peacefully usefully gleefully perpetually unlawfully meaningfully thankfully purposefully bodily gravelly beneficially artificially officially centrally nasally judicially unofficially philosophically periodically superficially subfamily generally methodically governmentally unnecessarily unilaterally bilaterally tivoli finally internally externally speedily eternally family exceptionally universally geographically tripoli tully royally personally scientifically crucially operationally occasionally educationally hastily involuntarily gravitationally clumsily architecturally unintentionally individually handily racially nattily napoli peripherally sympathetically pathetically parenthetically hermetically industrially statutorily naturally busily hyperbole unnaturally magnetically theoretically bubbly frugally broccoli brutally sully happily gully initially supremely provincially eerily italy loyally viscerally peripherally historically editorially wittily hungrily virtually subtly structurally wiggly electrically diametrically contradictorily metrically sicily serenely empirically liberally satisfactorily culturally theatrically literally regally

Phonetic and Homophones

D R EH1 D F AH0 L IY0

Similar Spelling

dreadful dreadfulness dried_fruit dried-up

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